00:00Hi, I'm Mackenzie Davis.
00:02Sorry, what are we doing?
00:05I totally just blanked out.
00:07I say my name and you say yours.
00:09Of course, of course we're doing that.
00:12Hi, I'm Charlie Heaton.
00:13Hi, I'm Josh Hartnett.
00:16Hi, I'm Mackenzie Davis.
00:18Hi, I'm Charlie Heaton.
00:19Hi, I'm Josh Hartnett and we're from the film...
00:22And I'm Josh Hartnett and we're from the series Below.
00:25Out now on Netflix, yes?
00:27Of course you are.
00:28And this is The Hollywood Reporter.
00:38Hi, I'm Saya Rankin and I'm here with Below.
00:42Josh, we'll have you do.
00:45Tell us the spiel on this show, kind of the one sentence log line.
00:51Spoiler free.
00:52Free, spoiler free.
00:53Spoiler free.
00:53It's hard to do it in one sentence, but it's...
00:56You can have a couple sentences.
00:56So a Newfoundland fishing village that's been kind of on the edge of Newfoundland civilization
01:04for a while now is being potentially forced to relocate.
01:08And there's a family at the center of it, a character named Calvin, my character, who is very reluctant to
01:14do this.
01:15And in the midst of sort of fighting this small battle that is a much... ends up being a much
01:20larger battle,
01:21something very mysterious happens in the water.
01:25And yeah, I guess that's it.
01:27Are we allowed to say what's in the water yet or no?
01:33Because I was going to say what I've been describing it as, but...
01:36I mean, it's not exactly, I think, what...
01:38I mean, like...
01:39The thing in the water.
01:41Did somebody tell you what it was?
01:43Well, no.
01:45So then I don't know.
01:46I mean, you can guess, but I don't know if you'll be right.
01:47I was going to say it's sort of Widow's Bay, but something's in the water instead of in the spirits
01:54around you.
01:56I wouldn't say that.
01:57I mean, I saw Widow's Bay and I really liked it.
01:59There's a totally different tone in this show.
02:01It's much more sort of human-oriented and less sort of overtly comedic,
02:10but very funny in its own way as well.
02:13Yeah, less slapstick.
02:14What were each of you guys, like, looking to do, like, when this show came to you?
02:19Were you guys looking for a show or, like, looking to get away from home or...?
02:25Can I just say I was actively not looking to do a TV show?
02:28Oh, okay.
02:28Like, I was actively not looking for those shows.
02:30I just came off a movie and wanted to do another movie.
02:32I was going to go do another movie, and then I read this, and I was like, wow, this is
02:35amazing.
02:36Yeah, me too.
02:37I just come off, literally just come off finishing, you know, 10 years in a Netflix genre show.
02:42So, yeah, I was also not looking to do a show.
02:45The fact that it was limited did help.
02:48But, no, in reality, it was the world script.
02:53And what Jesse wrote in the pilot, it seemed just, like, it seems, you know, larger than life.
03:00But then the thing is, when you get to Newfoundland, you know, it is that richness and the brightness that
03:06comes off screen.
03:07That is all there, you know, and these people are all there.
03:10And, yeah, it's just that world is so intriguing.
03:14Absolutely.
03:14Yeah, yeah.
03:15It's just really good.
03:16I feel like that's the only thing I'm ever looking for is, like, has it been done a thousand times
03:21before or have I done it before?
03:24In which case, no.
03:26And this was so special and unique and specific in particular.
03:31And I just loved it.
03:33It was hard to deny.
03:34Charlie, when you, like, did you get an email about it?
03:39Like, when you said you were, like, I don't want to do another, like, genre.
03:42I just did a show.
03:43Did you have to be convinced?
03:44Or, like, what got you to even read it or take the call?
03:48My agent did that thing where he's like, I know you said you didn't want to do this thing, but
03:52just, but, but, but, but, but just, but, yeah, no, just take a read.
03:57And I did and I read the pilot and I just, you know, I blasted through it so fast.
04:01And then I had a, yeah, a Zoom with Jesse and, yeah, it just became apparent that it was something,
04:06it was like a really rich world that I wanted to, yeah, give it a go.
04:09And also the character for me.
04:11The character was so different to anything I've played before and it felt like an opportunity to just, yeah.
04:17I also kind of have a lot of fun with this character.
04:20Like, Wade is such a fun, fun character.
04:23And then, and also the opportunity to go somewhere, you know, and see something new in that part of the
04:27world is so remote.
04:29You know, the idea to get to go to this, yeah, to get to go to Newfoundland.
04:33When else are you going to go to Newfoundland?
04:35You know, I mean, people should go to Newfoundland, but, so, yeah, I just had all those ingredients.
04:41I do feel like, and granted, I've only seen the first two episodes, so maybe the character takes a big
04:44turn,
04:45but your character in Below, if he lived in London and was a journalist, he would be sort of similar
04:51to the, to the guy in Industry.
04:53Really?
04:54Interesting.
04:56Why is that?
04:57Why do you think that?
04:57I don't know.
04:58Maybe just the vibe.
04:59The vibe?
05:00The vibe of the guy.
05:00Yeah.
05:01That's so interesting.
05:03Maybe they're both, they're both, they're both, they both have a love for narcotics, I think.
05:08That's the only thing I, it's just, it's like, yeah.
05:11They look similar.
05:12Yeah, they do that.
05:12Well, it's me.
05:14He would embrace the unconventional journalistic.
05:18I've got the same height.
05:20I feel like, for me, yeah.
05:22I really choose to do the same height character.
05:24Different, different voices, though.
05:25That's what I do, I just change my voice.
05:27That's true.
05:27How, the Newfoundland accent is, I guess, infamous, right?
05:31Very specific.
05:32How did you guys find picking that up?
05:35Easy.
05:37I don't do it, so.
05:38Well.
05:39It was a, so, obviously, Mackenzie plays someone from away.
05:43So, Charlie and I play, you know, father and son, and we are clearly from the same place.
05:51So, we had to find the specific sounds that we were going to use for our family accent.
05:58It varies from, Newfoundland is not, there's not a lot of people, but it's a very large landmass,
06:03and there are lots of people that have been there for generations in one place.
06:07So, very specific dialects, and there's many of them.
06:13So, we had to choose which one was going to work best, I think, for the family, and then
06:17all work together to kind of make sure that we were in the same place.
06:22And we were able to do that, which is really cool, and we had a great dialect coach.
06:25And, um, I like this thing called the Fisherman's Broadcast.
06:29It's now called Broadcast on CBC.
06:31Okay.
06:32And I listen to that almost every day, because it was so many regional dialects.
06:36It was so good.
06:37And, yeah, yeah, to get it in my head.
06:39Did you have a sentence or a phrase that got you into the accent?
06:44There were quite a few.
06:45But we had some kind of nursery rhyme-y stuff that we used to do as well, but I'm not
06:49going
06:49to do that right now.
06:50No.
06:50Yeah.
06:51Yeah, I mean.
06:52Fodder.
06:54Fodder, yeah.
06:54Fodder.
06:55Fodder all the time?
06:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:56Fodder, mudder.
06:57Fodder, mudder.
06:58What is there to do in Newfoundland when you're not filming?
07:01Go to the Duke.
07:03Oh, so many.
07:03So much things.
07:04Whale watching.
07:05Swim with whales.
07:06Go find puffins.
07:07Go swimming with the capelin.
07:08Go see the capelin.
07:10Hike.
07:11Hike.
07:11Go for a run.
07:12Signal hill.
07:13Yep.
07:14Try not to hit moose when you're driving.
07:16Try not to hit moose while you're driving.
07:18Oysters.
07:18Many oysters.
07:19Good food.
07:20Swim.
07:20Lots of knitwear.
07:22Swim.
07:22Swim.
07:22A lot of it.
07:23The knitwear is incredible.
07:25Yeah.
07:26Oh, yeah, yeah.
07:26What is the Duke?
07:28Oh, Duke is like one of the best pubs in the world.
07:33It's a great pub.
07:34And most of our crews spend a lot of time there in the off hours.
07:38Yeah.
07:39They do fish.
07:40So every Friday, like Newfoundland is like, you know, supper.
07:42They have their supper.
07:43And a lot of people go out there on a Friday to have fish supper, which is fish and chips.
07:48Yeah.
07:48Oh, like a fish fry in the Midwest.
07:50Yeah.
07:50Yeah.
07:51Yeah.
07:51And it's pretty good.
07:53It's really.
07:54You can't say it's so good.
07:56I'm from a fishing town.
07:57I'm from like a small fishing town on the coast of England.
07:59All we do is fish and chips.
08:01Say it's good.
08:01My taste buds don't matter because you grew up in a fishing village.
08:04Yeah.
08:05What do you think is better?
08:08I found a place in Petty Harbor.
08:10It was a totally different area, much more on the coast, much more of its own.
08:15Like, it was definitely much more real, straight out of the ocean, and the cod was coming right
08:20to your table.
08:22Right.
08:22High standards.
08:23Not all the way into the big city of St. John's.
08:26On trucks, frozen beforehand.
08:29Oh, God.
08:30I can't believe you're ripping the Duke.
08:32No, I think the Duke is great.
08:33I love the Duke.
08:33They treated you.
08:34I love the Duke.
08:35It's not that.
08:36I'm just, I am saying that, yes, fish and chips were good at the Duke.
08:40There were other places that I found better.
08:41That's all.
08:42You're not going to allow.
08:43I know they're not going to allow me back.
08:44We are doing something there next week, so they're going to be so pissed.
08:47They're not going to give me a Guinness, which I can't drink anymore anyway.
08:50Were any of you afraid of the water before making this show?
08:54I was born in 1978, like Jaws.
08:57Yeah.
08:57Oh.
08:57Terrified of the water.
08:58Yeah.
08:59No, I'm very brave.
09:01You do seem very brave.
09:02Were you, did making this show or watching any of the episodes make you more freaked out?
09:09No, because I know it's not real.
09:12Well, Jaws wasn't real either.
09:13I know, but I was there.
09:15It's like watching a horror movie with yourself in it and you're like, I'm fine.
09:19Yeah.
09:20That's true.
09:20That's true.
09:21Do you guys remember what you got yourself with your very first Hollywood paycheck?
09:28Like your first kind of real job check that came in?
09:31What did you treat yourself to?
09:33Do you guys know what you got?
09:34Um, kind of, yeah.
09:37Yeah.
09:38Well, and what is the first real...
09:40Oh, that was it.
09:41That was it.
09:41How are we now?
09:42Do you remember?
09:43I, uh, ever since I was like, I think like 17 or 18, I'd wanted, uh, my dad's friend
09:50Steve had an MG, the car, and I'd always wanted that, and I'd never had a car.
09:56It was my first car.
09:56Uh, it was only, it was, it was like, it was like, I won't say how much it was.
10:01It wasn't that expensive.
10:01It was like nine, it's nine grand.
10:03How much was it?
10:03It was ten grand.
10:05Oh, it's nine grand.
10:05So it's cheaper than a, I had this idea, I could either rent a car and spend ten grand
10:09for the time I'm in Atlanta, or I could buy my dream car.
10:12Cool.
10:12And I bought my dream car, uh, and all it did was break down.
10:15Yeah, of course.
10:15Where is it?
10:16Yeah.
10:17Right?
10:17It's in a garage in Atlanta.
10:19Oh, good God.
10:19Uh, but it's beautiful, and I love driving it when she drives.
10:22When?
10:23Yeah.
10:23He wrote when.
10:24Anyone else?
10:25Yeah, I remember.
10:26How about you?
10:27Uh, what, do you have to say what it is?
10:30You want to go last?
10:31No, mine's very, mine's very similar to Charlie's, where I, I, I really wanted a car, but I,
10:35I didn't, I wasn't brave enough, or I had a father who wouldn't allow me to get the car
10:38I wanted.
10:38Hmm.
10:39So I, I had the, I had, I had the money, I thought, to go buy something that was really
10:42cool, um, like a vintage, like a very, very vintage Porsche, and it was, it was, I found
10:50this one, it was not in good condition, and my dad was like, what do you think?
10:56Like, you're not gonna be able to drive that anywhere, you're just gonna break down all
10:58the time, and he convinced me not to buy it, and I ended up buying a, for about, right
11:02around the same price that you bought yours, I think it was like nine grand, I think I
11:05had about, like, ten to spend, and I bought it for nine grand.
11:08And, um, a, uh, Jeep, um, uh, Wrangler.
11:13A Jeep Wrangler.
11:14That's so fun.
11:14But it was, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't as cool as, like, a.
11:18Yeah.
11:19Old, like, 80s broken down Porsche, which would have been super cool.
11:22Yeah.
11:22And I could have kept that to this day, and, like, maybe restored it, and, like,
11:25have this awesome thing.
11:26Are you calling?
11:26No.
11:28Just one sec.
11:31That's, that's me, the dang on the car.
11:33Nice.
11:34Wow.
11:34Picking up the car in the garage.
11:36Cute.
11:37Cute.
11:38Look at that.
11:38There's a, do you know what a Canadian tuxedo is?
11:41Yeah.
11:42Yeah, there, there you go.
11:43Oh, that's what you're wearing.
11:45Yeah.
11:46Wow.
11:46I was very, very excited about it.
11:49Mackenzie, take us home.
11:50Yeah, I mean, it wasn't the first thing, but, but just to stay on theme, it was a 1973 SL
11:59Mercedes Ford, it was, like, a hardtop convertible in this gray.
12:03Like, seafoam green.
12:05It was so sexy.
12:06Cool girl car.
12:07It was so fun, and I, um, I actually bought it during the pandemic, because I was going
12:12to leave L.A., and I didn't have a car, like, I ended up getting stuck there, and I had
12:16gotten rid of my car, and I was going to leave, blah, blah, anyways, it's a long story, but,
12:20um, then I needed a car to drive around L.A., and I, I bought this for about $10,000,
12:27actually.
12:27Wow.
12:28Yeah.
12:29The price is right.
12:30And, uh, and had such a nice summer there, and was, and, because there was, you know,
12:33no traffic, so it was really sort of a dream.
12:35And where is she now?
12:37Um, I sold it to my sister, because I only had it for, like, three months, because I moved
12:40to London shortly thereafter.
12:41Sold it to my sister, and then now she had it for a long time and sold it to her
12:44friends,
12:44so it's still, like, in the mix.
12:46Nice.
12:46Yeah.
12:47Fun.
12:48Okay, last.
12:48That's my car, my wife, one of it.
12:49Oh, my God, it's so, I'll show you a picture of mine afterwards.
12:51Maybe if your sister's done with it.
12:53Um, last question.
12:54Is there anything you guys have been in that you wish you weren't in so that you could
12:58watch it?
12:59Oh, sorry.
13:00Oh, sorry.
13:03I was going to say so that you could watch it, like, as a fan without it being, like,
13:08you know, you watch it pure, but now maybe I should just start asking that question,
13:11just the first part.
13:12What do you, what do you hate?
13:14Strike one from the record.
13:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:16We could.
13:16Yeah, F, moon, kill.
13:18Yeah, exactly.
13:20Oh, that's actually kind of a good game for some point.
13:23I think I, like, only, and I'm not in it that much, so it is quite easy to watch, but
13:27I think as soon as you go, like, inside of something, you're like, oh, this was that
13:31day, or this person's, was, had this vibe, or whatever, this happened while I was there,
13:36but Blade Runner, um, I think I, like, would have seen it again other than the first time
13:40I've seen it, because the original is my favorite movie, or one of, and, uh, yeah,
13:45it's not, like, bad to watch it, you just lose that little bit of, it's like the tax
13:51on being an actor, I think, because you don't get to fully immerse in some things.
13:55Yeah.
13:55One movie a year where you don't get to enjoy it.
13:58Yeah.
13:58The way that you would.
13:59Exactly.
14:00It's a tough tax.
14:00That's the tax, yeah.
14:03Yeah, of course, it would be, you know, be hard, it'd be hard not to say strange things,
14:07because of the phenomenon, you know, and to understand what that would have been like
14:11to see from the outside.
14:12You're like, I don't get it.
14:13Yeah.
14:14Yeah.
14:17I did a movie with some friends, and we, we, we were all, uh, I mean, a friend of mine
14:22directed it, a friend of mine wrote it, some friends of mine and I produced it, and I was
14:25in it, and then we got this crazy cast together, uh, and it wasn't really a big hit, but it
14:29was just a movie that I really loved being a part of, and kind of, but I was, I'd always
14:34like to, I wonder what I would have thought of it had it just, like, popped out and come
14:37out into theaters, and I would, would I have liked it, would I have seen it, would I have
14:40kind of championed it, and it was Lucky Number 11, I don't know if you ever saw that.
14:44Um, yeah, we shot, thanks man, uh, and we shot that in Canada, actually, we shot that
14:49in, uh, Montreal, and then in Chicago for a little bit, uh, but it was, or in New York
14:54for a little bit, um, and yeah, it was, it was, uh, I'd be curious to see how that would
15:00turn out with somebody else.
15:01Yeah, fair.
15:02Well, thanks guys for chatting with me, I appreciate it.
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